Stone Cold — Teachers Guides
Lesson idea and reading recommendations using the Common Core Standards for young adult readers.
Monster Academy — Teacher’s Guide
Download the teacher’s guide
Kite for Moon — Lesson Plan
A Google hyperdoc by Rayna L. Freedman
What to Do with a String
The publisher says: “Jane Yolen is an award-winning author, poet, and teacher. She has written more than 365 books, including What to Do with a Box, illustrated by Chris Sheban, and the Caldecott Medal—winning Owl Moon, illustrated by John Schoenherr. The Educational Book & Media Association honored her
Eek, You Reek!: Poems about Animals That Stink, Stank, Stunk
So I had a brilliant idea. Humorous poems about stinky animals. Lots of back matter. You know–skunk, stink bug, mink, ferret,. Had a moment’s doubt that there wouldn’t be enough. Google set my mind at rest. Talked to daughter Heidi about doing the book with me.
Merbaby’s Baby
This board book began years ago as a poem in a collection called DRAGON NIGHT & OTHER LULLABIES. From there it became a song with music by Lui Collins, a wonderful folk singing friend of mine with who I’d written many songs both for children and adults.
School of Fish — Series
This 6 book series, coming out two books a year for three years, began as a single book as part of a collection of board book manuscripts I had written under the collective title WATER BABIES. That collection of board books has yet to find a publishing home, but Jeff Salane, one of my editors
A Kite for Moon
A lyrical book about a little boy, his obsession with the moon, and how he becomes an astronaut who gets to walk on the moon. And though the book is dedicated to Neil Armstrong, it’s not about him. It’s about desire, dedication, and hard work. In fact, the very things that created the book itself.
Devil’s Arithmetic — Teacher’s Guide
A Teacher’s guide to the holocaust using parallel reading of Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor and The Devil’s Arithmetic.